The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-12
HOME FROM THE CRUISE.
THE FLEET OF THE SAVANNAH
YACHT CLUB RETURNING.

Cockroaches-An Alligator Shot and
Man-Eater Captured-An Insurrec-
ton and How it Was Quelled-The
Incidents of the Return.
! Four of the boats of the Savannah Yacht
Clubs feet returned yesterday from the
annual cruise, and the sun-burned mariners
| came into the city to spin their yarns about
what they had done. Though, to tell the
/ truth, they are drawing their yarns about
the cruise more mildly than they usually
| do, because they are under discipline, fish
stories having been barred out while the
club was away The sailors show the
effects of their four days yachting,
for their faces are burned until they re-
semble the delicate hue of the lobster, but
they all feel better for their sport and will
be ready for the next trip when the time
arrives. The cruise was one of the most
successful that the club has ever made
| Nothing occurred during the whole time to
mar the pleasure Of the occasion, the ele-
ments and fish both conspiring to make the
| affair pleasant and agreeable one. One
or two squalls came up but they did not
| last long nor We're they severe. The weather
during nearly the whole time was delight
full, with wind enough to fill the sails and
keep the mariners cool.
THE SAIL DOWN THE RIVER.
The feet left Montgomery at l: 30 o'clock
Monday, and sailed down the river for some
distance, the Zinga leading, when a stiff
| southeastern came up. just below Postum
| Point the sails had to be reefed but soon
the squall was over and the reefs were
shaken out. The Naomi then took the lead,
and all the Others save the Eta, followed.
1 l. ! L. \
| stopped at Postum Pond for dinner and
took things easy the remainder of the way
| down. The Jennie s. went into MaXwellS
| Creek, and waited for the Zinga. The other
boats went on down the river, and
crossed St. GATHERINGS Sound that night,
the Naomi being the first at anchor, the
| flagship second, the Glance next and the
storeship last The Jennie s. and the Zinga
| got down to the sound after dark, but it
was squally all night, so they anchored in
| Rogers creek. Next morning the Eta
came down and crossed the sound, followed
soon after by the Zinga and Jennie s., and
the feet met at the wharf at st. GATHERINGS.
| Upon the arrival of the fleet the club flag was
ordered up by the Commodore and a ICON
sultation" was held on board the flagship.
After that the lines were got out and all
| hands put to work catching breakfast, after
which the crews began a round of visiting.
THEY THOUGHT HE HAD EN-
The day was given up to fishing, visiting,
eating, drinking. and having a good time
generally. AT night a strong northeaster
came up and blew all the mosquitoes away,
4 so the night was delightful for sleeping, and
the sailors thoroughly enjoyed it, al except
one. He vowed and declared that there
were cockroaches in the boat, and that he
| could not sleep because they had been run
ming over his face all night. The captain
l,.I e..
surgeon, but one of the crew explained that
it was not case that needed the attention
of the surgeon; that he was responsible for
| his companions belief in cOckrOacheS. His
companion had been snoring heavily, and
he had been Tipping him in the
face with towel to make
him stop. The captain recalled his
messenger, and withheld a lecture on tenn
perance that was on the tip of his tongue
The fleet was fairly Still that night The
boys were pretty well fatigued, and most of
them slept soundly, but every now and
then warwhoop would come from one of
the boats, and be answered from others I'M
til it had gone all around the feet That
would awaken some Of the sleepers, and a
chorus of growls would be heard from under
the blankets, then all would be still for half
an hour, when another wild yell would split
the air and be repeated as if echoed. Some
of the sleepers vowed vengeance, but it was
never wreaked. When morning came all
hands tumbled out and took to the lines
again for breakfast, which they were most
successful in procuring.
HE CAUGHT A SHARK LINE.
The first event of the day was tine shoot
ing of gator by Mr.. C. A Shearson, of
the crew of the Claude, but that feat was
totally eclipsed by one Of the Pirate crew.
He was fishing with a small line and only
| limo 70 ff.h ,.lf Ash, 10,
he got bite that nearly jerked him over
board He began to pull in but his catch
was so big that he thought the line would
break. He drew it steadily in, however
and at last he landed the shark line of the
| Naomi. He felt sold at first but when he
caught the shark line and gave it a
tug he concluded that there was
something on the end of 1t, so he began to
pull away, and finally he drew up a sx-foot
shark that had been caught during the
night and had been drowned The Pirate
gave the Naomi crew the laugh, when he
found he had caught this line with prize
on it, and thus turned attention from him
self. After breakfast the Glance and the
flagship went to Folly, and the Naomi to
Bronson's camp for fish, and the Zinga to
| Ossabaw for deer hunt The rendezvous
was Off st. GATHERINGS, but none of the
party landed at st GATHERINGS, the hunting
and fishing being done at neighboring points.
HOW TO AVOID FISH STORIES.
The Jennie S. and the Eta remained to
take care of camp, and that onerous duty
consisted i'll opening some champagne, which
had been donated by one Of the members
of the crew of the Zinga If that gentle
man should live 81 long as those who drank
his health hoped he would he could give
| Methuselah discount and then beat him to
the end of the string. Several of the party
| Cta bod tn Ipl xybo oil fiSb tbaxr
had caught, but the beginning of a fish
story was signal 10 take a drink, and thus
the story-teler was invariably cut Off At
first II was rather embarrassing to he shut
off in this manner, as il chestnut had been
announced, but wnen the boys found it was
the intention of the club TO stop fish stories
by taking drink every time one was be-
gun they all began to begin, and
ii the number of beginnings is any
indications OF the number of fish stories
that were on hand to be told the crowd
must have been loaded to the guards with
them. But this method of stopping stories
soon began to tell on the stock of liquids
The bottoms of bottles, jugs and demijohns
began TO appear Then the mariners thought
of coming back--at any rate they broke
camp. Tho Eta and the Claude went over
to Toms creek for "a good fish, the Glance
started or on an independent cruise, which
! will last for two or three days, and late
| ednesday night the Jennie ;. went over
near the flagship and camped. Yesterday
morning the best mess of fish of the whole